Shelley, Once some of us were talking about getting our history from novels, and several were named for English nnovelists. Victoria Holt writing as Jean Plaidy was one. There was one who wrote about a lot of characters during Queen Elizabeth I's reign but the name escapes me. He/she wrote one I thought was called The Golden Boys about Lord Essex and there were a lot more. Anyway I can't seem to get to first base with the search functions today. Everything says there are no matches. Do you remember any of them??? tia, Sue